Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Self-Confidence

The best thing about becoming more human-relations competent is that it makes one more self-confident. It happens every time. In short, the more you practice the human-relations skills discussed in this book, the more self-confidence you will build. Learning to establish strong working relationships with those who are older and more experienced than you is confidence building. Being able to restore a damaged relationship is confidence building. The more you can prove to yourself that you are good at people skills, the less likely it is that you will be intimidated by others. Soon you will discover that you can work effectively with sophisticated, experienced superiors at all levels; soon you will feel sufficiently confident to ...